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Sphingidae
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Dataset
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GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
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Rank
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FAMILY
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Published in
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<i>in</i> Sonnini’s Buffon, <i>Hist. nat. gén. partic. Crust. Ins.</i>, <b>3</b>: 400
Classification
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kingdom
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Animalia
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phylum
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Arthropoda
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class
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Insecta
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order
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Lepidoptera
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family
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Sphingidae
Name
- Homonyms
- Sphingidae
- Common names
- hawk moths in language.
- hawkmoths in language.
- hornworms in language.
- pijlstaarten in Flemish
- sphinx moths in language.
- hawk moths in English
- pijlstaarten in Flemish
Bibliographic References
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International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 41 Addition to the Official List of family- group names in Zoology or, as the case may be, to the Official Index of Rejected and invalid family-group names in Zoology of the family-group names Involved in volume 11 of the Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological nomenclature, other than family-group names already dealt with in those Opinions.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 11(30), 431-452 (1956)